National Finals 2019 2 – 3 August Auckland HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE ACHIEVE THEIR BEST NZCT is the largest gaming society in New Zealand and everyone at NZCT, from governance to management to sta , is passionate about making a positive contribution to New Zealand. We believe that New Zealand’s communities are at their strongest when people actively come together – to take part, organise or be a vocal supporter. The NZCT Chamber Music Contest is a great example of this – which is why we’ve nancially supported this event for the past 16 years. We hope that by supporting competitions like this, young Kiwis are inspired to work hard, to excel in their chosen eld and to reach for their goals.

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The NZCT Chamber Music Contest NZCT is proud to once again support A special thank you to NZCT for their has been showcasing New Zealand’s the NZCT Chamber Music Contest. substantial and continued support young musicians for more than half This is an iconic event in the musical of this flagship event in the CMNZ a century and never fails to amaze - landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand. calendar. Since its inception in 1965, as demonstrated by the astonishing What pleases us most is that it the Contest has involved tens of sound, precision and musicianship reaches deep into communities from thousands of young musicians right of last year’s winners Te Ahi Kaa. Northland to Invercargill with over around the country. It is the only It will be exciting to see another 1500 secondary students taking part. contest of its kind in the world and tranche of talented young musicians Watching them with their families showcases some of New Zealand’s challenging one another this year, and friends at the District, Regional finest young musical talent. Many of while engaging with some of the and National Finals, we can see that our top professional musicians tell world’s greatest musical repertoire. the Contest is making a very positive us of the importance of the Contest contribution throughout the country. in shaping their career pathway. At The technical command and We are pleased to be encouraging all levels the Contest provides an musicianship it takes to succeed artistic achievement in this way. opportunity for teamwork, setting in chamber music, or indeed to goals and personal development. compose it, means that each and To all of those who competed in the every one of the students competing 2019 NZCT Chamber Music Contest, An important element of the Contest at every level of the contest can take well done! Thanks, too, to family, is the comprehensive coaching huge pride in their achievements. friends and – importantly – the programme for both performers For many, this experience will pave teachers who have supported you and composers supported by Trinity the way to a musical career as they in this endeavour. Finally, the best College London and the Judith follow in the footsteps of today’s of luck to those who have made it Clark Memorial Fund. We have been successful professional musicians through to the Semi-Finals and Finals. able to assist contestants with their who honed their skills in these travel to the Regional and National contests in years gone by. Semi-Finals and Finals through the generosity of Professor Jack Richards My thanks again to NZCT and and the Freemasons Foundation, Chamber Music New Zealand, and whose support also includes our live to everybody who has helped streaming of the Finals — enabling us make the contest possible, including to reach out far beyond the Auckland dedicated music teachers and Mike Knell Town Hall. Similarly, we appreciate whānau. Thank you all for your part Chief Executive the funding from One Foundation in fostering a strong future for New NZCT and Mt Wellington Foundation. Zealand music. We would like to thank the Wallace While other responsibilities prevent Foundation for their ongoing me from attending the finals, I look partnership that includes supporting forward to hearing about the results - the platinum prize, KBB Music and and I wish the finalists and audiences SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand all the best for a memorable two Music who fund a range of prizes, days of music making. and the University of Auckland and Todd Corporation as valued partners. We also acknowledge Creative New Zealand as our main funder. I do hope you enjoy the wonderful music-making! Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Minister for the Arts Culture & Heritage

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Robert Orr Diedre Irons Ashley Brown Robert is the section Principal oboist Diedre Irons spent her early life in Acclaimed as a musician of “unim- of the New Zealand Symphony Canada. She graduated from the peachable artistry”, Ashley Brown is Orchestra. He has been a member prestigious Curtis Institute of Music one of New Zealand’s leading soloists, of the orchestra for over twenty before joining the faculty there. collaborators, chamber musicians and years and has also held the posts of recording artists. He is a founder of principal cor anglais and associate She spent several years teaching NZTrio and a passionate advocate principal oboe. Outside of New and touring as a soloist and chamber for New Zealand music. His teach- Zealand, Robert has played as guest music player before moving to ers have included Alexander Ivash- principal oboe with the Australian New Zealand in 1977 where she kin, Aldo Parisot and William Pleeth Chamber Orchestra and Sydney quickly became established as helping him to success in auditions, Symphony Orchestra. one of their most celebrated and competitions and awards, both local sought-after musicians. In 1989 she and international. While studying at the Royal Academy was awarded an MBE and in 2011 an of Music, London, he also played ONZM for services to music, and in His musical curiosity has led him with the London Philharmonic, 2007 received the degree Doctor of from an Artist Diploma at Yale to a The Philharmonia and the City of Music (honoris causa) from Brandon Doctorate of Musical Arts exploring London Sinfonia. University in Manitoba, Canada. the collaborative relationship between composer and performer, She taught at the University of and onward to sharing the stage with Robert is an established recital artist, Canterbury from 1992-2003 and at having appeared for both the New composers and artists as diverse the New Zealand School of Music as Dame , Moana Zealand International Festival of the from 2003-2012. Arts and the Festival Maniapoto, Michael Houstoun, of the Arts. He has also toured for Kristian Jaarvi and Neil Finn, and he Chamber Music New Zealand with continues to enjoy a musical career pianist Richard Mapp, and with the that leaves no colour of the musical Zephyr Wind Quintet. As a soloist, spectrum unexplored. Ashley plays he has appeared with the the 1762 William Forster ‘Liberte’ cello. Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, and on several occasions with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

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Sixteen Strings (Wellington) Text 3934 Erwin Schulhoff | Five Pieces for String Quartet, mvts 2, 3, 4 and 5 Toloa Faraimo violin Aotea College Shanita Sungsuwan violin Chilton St James Peter Gjelsten viola Wellington College Emma Ravens cello Upper Hutt College

Farr-Out Trio (Northland) Text 3935 | Ahi Atawhai Martin violin Home Educated Purotu Martin cello Home Educated Matthew He piano Whangarei Boys’ High School

Rerekē (Wellington) Text 3936 Béla Bartók | Contrasts, mvts 1 and 3 Benedict van Leuven clarinet Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School Enshean Lin violin Palmerston North Girls’ High School Amelia Isac piano Samuel Marsden Collegiate School

Quartetto Maduro (Canterbury) Text 3937 Isaac Shatford | Real Mature Victoria Lee violin St Andrew’s College Callum Hampton violin St Andrew’s College Samuel Jeon violin St Andrew’s College Grace Lawrence violin St Andrew’s College

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Virtuoso Strings Octet (Wellington) Text 3939 Craig Utting | Goodnight Kiwi Toloa Faraimo violin Aotea College Avril Stil violin St. Mary’s College Erana Tamaiva violin Porirua College Jillian Tupuse violin Tawa College Rochelle Pese Akerise violin Tawa College Veititi Alapati viola Tawa College Madison Setefano viola Viard College Daniel Sneyd-Utting viola Tawa College

2019 SENIOR ORIGINAL COMPOSITION WINNER Emmanuel Samuel Wong (Wellington) Emmanuel Samuel Wong | Cantata for the 5th Week of Lent Te Ohorere Williams voice Jake Krishnamurti trumpet Ki Hei Lee violin Nathan Pinkey violin Cecile McNeill viola Vincent Chen Cello Rachel Fuller Harpsichord

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Board Kerrin Vautier CMG (Chair), Hon Chris Finlayson, Quentin Hay, Andreas Heuser, Matthew Savage, Vanessa Doig

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SOUNZ is a music information centre that provides, fosters and promotes the composers. CANZ is the association for all amateur and professional composers in New Zealand. Both sections of the Composer Awards are open to all secondary school students. Entrants in the senior section are required to write works of between four and fifteen minutes for three to eight instruments, while the junior section entrants must write between one and four minutes for two to four instruments.

Composition Senior Section winner Junior Section winner The winner receives a SOUNZ Centre The winner will receive a SOUNZ Adjudicator for New Zealand Music prize of $500 Centre for New Zealand Music prize cash and one year’s subscription to of $100 cash, a SOUNZ voucher to CANZ (Composer’s Association of New the value of $50 and one year’s Zealand). subscription to CANZ (Composer’s Association of New Zealand). 2019 Winner: 2019 Winner: Emmanuel Samuel Wong Daniel Minh Kit Tran (Wellington) (Auckland) Cantata for the 5th Week of Lent Fantasia Emmanuel Wong is currently in Year Daniel Minh-Kit Tran is a 17 years old 13 at Upper Hutt College. He plays student born in New Zealand. Daniel piano and viola. started playing the piano at eight Cool Bach and cool jazz is his jam. years old and has participated in Other hobbies include playing chess, numerous competitions, both as a baking banana bread and eating it. soloist and in chamber music groups. Dr Michael F. Williams Daniel is particularly interested in He often enlists the help of his sisters composing in many different styles Michael Williams is a well-known to play music together, mainly his to bring out a range of colours in his figure in New Zealand composition. compositions. music. He has received commissions from Cantata for the 5th week of Lent is Composition Adjudicator, Dr Michael most of the country’s major musical based on the passage from John 11, institutions including the NZSO, NBR Williams comments on the work where Jesus raises Lazarus to life, saying, New Zealand Opera and Chamber prefiguring Jesus’ own death on Music New Zealand, and his music the cross and resurrection from the “A highly descriptive and ambitious is regularly broadcast on Radio New dead. Soli Deo Gloria! piece, based on ocean scenes. Zealand Concert. He has recorded a Wonderful to see such imaginative Composition Adjudicator, Michael number of works through the Atoll and colourful writing. The opening Williams comments on the work label. sets the scene very effectively, saying, with the crashing dissonant piano His music covers a wide range of “An incredibly ambitious and notes creating a very atmospheric genres including chamber music, impressive piece. To write an entire beginning. At b. 17 it changes to orchestral, concerti and opera. Cantata à la Bach is an extraordinary a whale song, expressed initially Polystylistic in his approach to feat. This piece shows an excellent in the violin with a lilting piano composition, many influences can understanding of tonal harmony accompaniment. A cetaceans duet be heard in his music from Gregorian and counterpoint, as well as Bach’s begins at b. 61 with a similar piano chant to the use of pitch class sets. Cantata form. The contrapuntal accompaniment but with the cello writing in the instrumental parts is in its high register. There follows the Michael maintains an interest in the especially impressive. The themes whistling of dolphins, a rise to the digital manipulation of acoustic for each section are individual and surface and still water. This is a very instruments which is evident in a effective. In my opinion, there is a imaginative piece, demonstrating a number of his works. His works plethora of substandard Christian keen imagination and a willingness are regularly played and recorded music in the world today and this to think outside of the square. internationally, particularly in Italy, piece sets the bar quite a lot higher.” Well done.” Spain and Asia. He is a senior lecturer at the Highly Commended: Conservatorium of Music at the Xiaole Zhan University of Waikato. (Auckland) Childhood Impressions QUATUOR ÉBÈNE “The Ébène foursome animated an entire universe.” – Bachtrack

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AUCKLAND HAWKE’S BAY OTAGO Delamére CCP Trio Unsung Heroes Ian Chiao, violin Luke Devane, clarinet Sarah de Vries, clarinet May Zeng, violin James Ashby, cello Boudewijn Keenan, cello Rachel An, viola Quinn Le Lievre, piano Cameron Monteath, piano Regina Baek, cello Ashani Waidyatillake, piano MANAWATŪ SOUTH CANTERBURY Trio Tristezza Dvorak Trio BAY OF PLENTY Enshean Lin, violin Natasha Gibbs, violin Utopian Trio Ayoung Cho, cello Sophie Bennet, cello Rosa Hook, violin Nicole Cheng, piano Amy Xie, piano Grace Tak, cello Zach Jans piano WELLINGTON SOUTHLAND Sixteen Strings Vibratsiya NORTHLAND Toloa Faraimo, violin Lewis Thomson, violin Eighteen-Twenty-Eight Shanita Sungsuwan, violin Alex Lindsay, violin Atawhai Martin, violin Peter Gjelsten, viola Renee Brookland, piano Lauren McClean, violin Emma Ravens, cello Quin McClean, viola Greta McClean, cello WHANGANUI Regional Final Winners Purotu Martin, cello Beats by Bartók Ahimsha Saravanapaven, piano NORTHERN TARANAKI Benjamin Power, piano Delamére (Auckland) Maunga Kapua Trio Sophie Andrews, percussion Ian Chiao, violin Hysan Shi, bamboo & traditional flute Joseph Petersen, percussion May Zeng, violin Frances Chow, violin Rachel An, viola Reuben Chan, classical guitar CANTERBURY Regina Baek, cello Szerenád Trió Ashani Waidyatillake, piano WAIKATO Sarah Lawrence, violin Arrebol Trio Emily Davey, violin CENTRAL Wesley Wu, violin Victoria Park, viola Joo Eun Kim, cello Sixteen Strings (Wellington) Ashley Tsai, piano NELSON ¨ MARLBOROUGH Toloa Faraimo, violin Les Trois Shanita Sungsuwan, violin EAST COAST Flora Secker, violin Peter Gjelsten, viola 76 Ants Jeni Choi, violin Emma Ravens, cello Jenae Kerisome, guitar Gloria Lee, piano Becky Devine, guitar SOUTHERN Sivanah Marsh, guitar Szerenád Trió (Canterbury) Sophie Akroyd, guitar Sarah Lawrence, violin Emily Davey, violin Victoria Park, viola

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